[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Hugh,

Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 11:26:43 PM, you wrote:

> Just a random observation: the competition for Haskell is not
> really C or C++.  C is basically dead; C++ is only really useful
> when you dont want people to be able to read your source code. 

btw, in his HOPL paper http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf
Bjarne emphasize that now C++ is language for system programming
rather than application programming

> Java comes close to being competition, but it's slow and eats memory

never checked it myself, but people say that modern Java
implementations are as fast as C# and close to C++ speeds

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com